42 projects
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reZilience
Supply chains facilitate the flows of goods and services and as such they are at the core of ensuring economic prosperity. The resilience of supply chains is fundamental to the success of companies and even more importantly to the livelihood of societies. The current pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of our existing supply chains, and in this context work package 13, supply chains and logistics, of the COVID-19 task force is tasked, among others, with the assessing the state of supply chains in Luxembourg. At the moment, WP13 is developing a quick survey to gain basic insights into ...
CAILA - COVID-19 Artificial Intelligent Legal Advisor
We propose to build an artificial intelligent legal advisor that can automatically answer legal questions concerning the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath via a conversational interface (chatbot). In these unprecedented times, people can feel overwhelmed by doubts and it's not easy to find someone that will answer: am I allowed to go help my old parents across the border? Will I have the right to unemployment benefits? Will my business be entitled tax relief? How and when do I need to file my documents with social security, tax administrations? What rights do I have as a cross-border worke...
Preferences through Twitter
People's deep preferences can affect economic growth, hamper economic recovery, and hinder social cohesion. This project aims to provide timely information about the change in people's preferences and attitudes due to the COVID19 crisis. We apply sentiment analysis to data sourced from social media, such as Twitter, to provide real-time data on ongoing social change. We propose to focus on the following aspects: life satisfaction, mental stress, trust in others and in institutions, loneliness, uncertainty about the future, populism and feelings towards globalization. We will aggregate the ...
Young People and COVID-19 (YAC) - Social, Economic, and Health Consequences of Infection Preventi...
Whereas adolescents and young adults are less affected by severe progressions of COVID-19, the measures to prevent and control the infection interfere disproportionally with their development. There are short-term and long-term impacts on their educational and professional careers and their psycho-social development (gaining autonomy from parents, building relationships). Non-intended negative social, economic and health consequences by the measures taken to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic are therefore particularly likely for young people. It is important to identify and understa...
MODVid -- Modeling the macroeconomic and distributional eects of Covid-19 and restarting scenarios
MODVid is a package of four complementary and interdependent projects aimed to inform public decisions fastly. The goal is to use better modeling tools to estimate consistent macroeconomic and distributional effects of the crisis and of restarting scenarios. We propose to use macroeconomic and microsimulation models available at STATEC or LISER (assuming a return to normalcy after the crisis) as well as to develop a model highlighting the risk of a systemic collapse of financial markets (no return to normalcy). In the assessment of the restarting strategy, a particular attention is devoted ...
COVID-19 related economic implications in Luxembourg: services industry robustness and commercial...
The proposed project seeks to understand crucial short- and medium-term economic impacts on and strategies of Luxembourg's commercial real estate industry (offices, hotels, large retail) as a proxy for its services industries' crisis resilience. Luxembourg is a small but open economy. The finance and advanced business services (FABS) are strategic industries and main contributors to Luxembourg's GDP. Close links between FABS firms (business ties, finance relationships) can amplify shocks in Luxembourg's economy. The likely damage done to the finance sector depends also on how flexible real...
Exploring emerging initiatives for a new societal model
As an NGO promoting the collective intelligence and the technology for citizens, being part of the Open Government Partnership commitment #5 of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and in collaboration with the Univeristy of Luxembourg, we would like to explore 1) The institutional initiatives emerging from the covid-19 crisis and 2) how citizens perceive this crisis and the changes that may emerge from it. The later focus appear to be particularly relevant as past studies have demonstrate that opinions emerging from social media and online forums are increasingly useful to nowcast and forecast th...
An Experimental test of Hospital Admission Guidelines
The project consists in an anonymous survey experiment on hospital guidelines during pandemics, such as those indicated by the Commission Nationale D'Ethique. Hospital guidelines are there to regulate admissions and treatment in case of congestion. Such guidelines, however, are rarely discussed in the media and most people are unlikely to be familiar with them. We propose to ask respondents whether they agree or not with the ethical principles of such guidelines and which ethical principles they would favor the most. In particular, we ask them to read a number of hypothetical scenarios on ...
